Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Mark,

 

I have a directory containing all of the Point Grey firmware I have downloaded.

 

corvette:~/areaDetectorVendor/PointGrey/Firmware>ls -ltr

total 1092

drwxrwxrwx 3 epics epics     142 Oct 11  2015 GS3-PGE-1.09.3-00

drwxrwxrwx 3 epics epics     139 Oct 15  2015 GS3-U3-1.15.3-00

drwxrwxrwx 2 epics epics     110 Oct 15  2015 GS3-U3-2.08.3-00

drwxrwxrwx 3 epics epics      56 Oct 15  2015 GS3-U3-2.11.3-00

drwxrwxrwx 2 epics epics     109 Oct 15  2015 GS3-U3-2.14.3-00

drwxrwxrwx 3 epics epics      58 Oct 15  2015 BFLY-PGE-1.43.3.0

drwxrwxr-x 3 epics epics     103 Jun  7  2016 GS3-U3-2.23.3-00

drwxrwxrwx 3 epics epics      34 Jun 20  2016 GS3-U3-2.24.3-00-23S6

 

Note that for version 2.23.3 it is a generic version for the entire Grasshopper3 USB-3.0 family of cameras.  For 2.24.3 however I have a version that is specific to the 23S6 model.  I suspect that what they are doing is releasing model-specific versions so they can take advantage of new features or fix bugs quickly, and then as time permits they release a new generic version for all models in that family.

 

I am quite certain I have accidentally tried to flash an incompatible version into a camera, and their flashing software was smart enough to prevent this.  The only problem I have had with their flashing software is with GigE cameras where it would fail if the camera was on a shared network. I had to temporarily make a direct connection from my PC to the camera.  I think the flashing software must not deal well with collisions or something.  I've had no problems flashing USB-3.0 cameras.

 

Mark